Word: mined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that he had had to take two members of his congregation to ah asylum-so grievously had they "gone off at the deep end" through jettisoning orderly processes of judgment, mental discipline and sound common sense and substituting therefore the capricious thaumaturgical foibles of these doctrinaires. Several friends of mine became "Groupers" (they like to add the erudite "Oxford" to the label) some time back but beyond a lopsided fanaticism, a persistent proclaiming how terrifically bad they were before and how "absolutely honest, absolutely unselfish, absolutely pure and absolutely loving" they are now, one fails to detect any particular difference...
...hand to watch proceedings was Treasurer Oliver A. Quayle Jr. of the Democratic National Committee. He took occasion to state that his party had received only a $50,000 loan (since repaid) from John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers for the 1936 campaign. Mr. Quayle next day admitted he did not know what he was talking about. U. M. W.'s 1936 gifts & loans, as reported to Congress, totaled...
...couple. In 1937 she asked for-and got-permission to wear a red dress when presented at the Court of St. James's. As a hostess she was tough, delighted to scramble New Dealers and Conservatives, took no political sides herself: "Politics is Homer's business, not mine...
...abandoned ranches of the Santa Cruz Valley, dirt cheap. One admirer, tall, lean Peter Muncie, she sent to Kentucky for a herd of cattle to stock her ranches. The other, Gambler Jefferson Carteret, a Southern aristocrat with drooping eyelids and ornate manners, went off prospecting, found a gold mine. By Appomattox Phoebe had the mine, the ranches, the cattle, her prosperous freighting business, an infant son. "Him 'n' Arizony is babies together," she said. "You 'n' me, Peter, has got to help both of 'em grow...
...smoking. But they desperately needed food and war supplies. The relative demand for various goods had completely changed. 2) The costs of transportation changed just as radically. There were few ships available to carry cotton, coffee and tobacco. More important, the cost of insuring these staples in transit through mine-and-submarine-infested waters rose to affect commerce in the same way as if new tariff barriers had been erected. Rubber, for example, zoomed to 90? a pound in New York during the War, but in Singapore, it brought growers only 20? wholesale...